Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
CHE WEST.

THE prison WardenS met at DeLrOlI on Gne
| 9Th and formed an association for the regis
tration of criminals.
THE conductors and brakomen of the
New York, Pennsylvania q Ohio railway
and of the Pennsylvania road at YOungs-
town, O., have struck for more wages and
less work.
ARMOUR & Co. deny that they have Of
fected compromise with the Cotton Oil
Trust Company.
MRS BECKER, fraudulent pension claim
ant, OF Cincinnati, has been sentenced 20
two years imprisonment in Jail.
JOHN ANDERSON, q laborer, was killed at
Sioux City, Iowa, recently by the caving OF
mass of frozen ground in big cut on
West Third street, where he was working.
He sat down TO rest under the overhanging
ledge, and was terribly crushed by it's un-
expected fall.
HARRY GROSS, colored, and three OF his
children were drowned near Vevay, Ind,
recently through the running down of their
skiff by towboat.
THE other afternoon Robert Blacker,
wealthy farmer living near Scipio, Ind.
together With his wife and child, while
crossing Dry Fork in carriage, the vehicle
was overturned, throwing the occupants
into the water. Mrs. Blacker was rescued,
but Mr.. Blacker and the child were
drowned.
HE INDIANA Legislature 0Xplr0Q Dy llml-
tation on the 18th. The appropriation bills
were not passed.
THE case of David s. Fotheringham,
charged with being ''Jim Cummings" &C
complete in the noted Adams express rob-
berry was continued in the st. Louis crimi-
nal court until the May term on account of
the illness of one of the defendants coun-
sci and the inability of the other to be pres
ent in the city.
AT the North Chicago rolling mills re-
Gently the belt on the big f1yWheel in the
machine shop became loose and o minute
later the wheel flew to piecea, huge fra9-
ments of iron being hurled in every direc-
ton. Some of the workmen were terribly
injured, one fatally.
FIRE at Walla Walla, W. T., the other
morning destroyed two frame blocks on
Main street between Third and Fourth and
to Rose street on the west, one block on the
north side of Main street and two blocks on
the south side. The total loss was S125, 600;
insurance, sc, 000
THREE hundred and fifty stove holders of
st. Louis have struck for 15 per cent. in
crease in wages.
The prison wardens met at Detroit on che
Sth and formed an association for the regis
tration of criminals
Two persons were killed and severai pad
ly injured recently by boiler explosion in
a factory at Ithaca, Mich.
The Illinois Central railroad has given
notice of its withdrawal from all pools on
account of the Interstate Commerce law.
MRS. LUCY PARSONS, the Chicago female
anarchist, was. locked up in Columbus, O.,
recently for abusing the mayor, who had re-
fused her permit for a hall
LIEUTENANT GUITTEREZ, who commanded
the Mexican soldiers who We're engaged in
the recent shooting affair with Americans.
was captured at Buena Vista, nine miles
from Nogales, AriZ., by party sent in pur-
suit by the Mexican authorities. 1t was
believed that Guitterez would be turned
over 20 the United States authorities.
ANOTHER attempt to pass militia bill
was defeated in the Missouri House on the
9th
ALL the striking Pennsylvania railway
employees at Youngstown. O., have been
paid off. The situation in the manufactures
OF that tewn was very bad, as the strike
cut off all coal.
A CONSOLIDATION was effected at Chicago
on the 9.h between the Western, North
western and Southwestern Passenger As
soclatlons. The new organization will be
known as the Western States Passenger
Association. State passes were abolished.
and each road was left to deal with them
as II pleases. A system of penalties and
tines will be established, to be inflicted for
attractions of association rules
IN the Common Pleas Court at Columbus.
", Judge Duncan sustained the demurrer
IN the indictment in the election tally sheet
forgery cases. The reason assigned was
because no copy of the tally sheet was set
out In the Indictment.
THE National League Of Musicians of tho
United States, in session at Chicago re-
Gently, passed resolutions asking Congress-
for protection.